**005 brick falling plum like snow

The falling plums fell one after another, sandwiched in the snowflakes, and once people couldn't tell whether it was falling Ying or falling snow, and they fell on the ivory crown, the chestnut fox fur, and the golden black boots

The cold plum blossoms in Xiangguo's Mansion appeared in his eyes. The soles of the clogs swirled and clucked against the texture of the flowers on the bluestone bricks, the silver bells on the cloud-headed embroidered shoes rang, she swirled and rotated the sleeves on the edge of the gold well, and the gauze skirt of the outer cover flew and lifted, like an open umbrella, the snow plum blossomed slowly and silently in the sea, and the endless laughter went straight into the vast sky, echoing in the Biwa Zhu Lang, and every time she turned to meet his four eyes, like a glimpse of the ground, the black and white eyes would always shine......

"Hao," the call of the visitor startled his eyes, and Qu Boyao stood up and bowed his head slightly. Li Yiming, who was over fifty years old and dressed in sackcloth, approached, his eyebrows were deep, and he said worriedly: "Hao, I knew that she would become your weakness." It is and will be. ”

Qu Boyao was silent.

Li Yiming said again: "You are such a kind woman, you saved people and harbored them, have you forgotten Zheng Chongshu's traitorous behavior?" ”

"Father," Qu Boyao knew that the more he protected her at this moment, the more he would strengthen his father's heart to get rid of her, so he said: "Father don't worry, I didn't save her because of anything else, and it was just an expedient measure to keep her in the house, she still has a lot to use for us." ”

"I hope that when death comes, you will remember what you said today!" Li Yiming flicked his sleeves and angrily bumped his shoulders.

Seeing Li Yiming's back walking away in the snow, the woman's laughter sounded in his ears again: "You are my husband, you are my husband alone, I am alone, if you don't teach me, who do you teach?" If you don't teach me, who will teach me? When she said this, her eyes were like deep pearls, and she didn't know if she was really young and ignorant, and she didn't understand the ambiguity of the words, she always liked to be cheeky and surround him and say to him over and over again: "You are my own, and if you don't teach me my alone, who do you teach?" Who taught me? ”

A twelve-bone blue silk umbrella suddenly covered the top of his head, and Wei Yun stepped forward and said, "Xiangye, Li Conghe has truthfully told His Majesty that Xiangye shot Zheng Niangzi with an arrow." ”

"What do you say?"

Wei Yun carefully dusted off the snow particles on the fox fur for him, stared at the red on his clenched fingers, and said slowly: "Your Majesty was silent, and did not blame Xiangye, but only asked Li Conghe: 'Do you know, why do people like pearls?' Li Conghe replied: "Because it is rare." His majesty smiled and said, "It's a pity." Thinking about it, His Majesty should not have suspected the death of Zheng Niangzi, nor did he suspect that Xiangye had done something. ”

With a glance, he snapped the plum branch in his hand and turned around and copied it into the cloister.

"Xiangye!" Wei Yun hurriedly held a silk umbrella to chase his footsteps: "Zheng Niangzi, who was in a coma day and night, woke up." ”

Qu Boyao's swift footsteps paused, and he hesitated for a moment before he hesitated and asked, "After she woke up, did she say anything?" ”

She just kept asking where Yuanyuan was. Wei Yun asked again: "Xiangye, doesn't Xiangye want to meet her?" ”

"I'm afraid that at this moment, the last person she wants to see is me, she escaped death and woke up from serious injuries, why should she be angry again? I am relieved to be taken care of by you. He said he was about to leave.

"But-" Wei Yun said hurriedly: "Xiangye is saving her, the slave family thinks, Zheng Niangzi is so smart, she will understand." ”

Staying in place for a moment, Qu Boyao continued to move forward without looking back.

The creak of the door opening, and the cold light of snow swayed through the crack in the door into the dimly lit room, reflecting the pale face of the person on the couch. Zheng Yuan tried to sit up, but the pain in her shoulder was pulled, spreading to her limbs, and she groaned and lay back, and the two maids of her age squirmed to pick up the residual juice in the medicine bowl.

After a while, two women led a group of maidservants to come in one after another, and the two women had different clothes and hairstyles from the maidservants, and after entering the house, they instructed the maidservants to change the furnishings in the house. One of them, Zheng Yuan, had just woken up, and the woman had a dignified and elegant temperament in her gestures, and she told Zheng Yuan in a soft tone, her name was Wei Yun, she was saved by her master, and her sister Yuanyuan was now safe and sound and reassured her, but she refused to tell Zheng Yuan who her master was.

Zheng Yuan tried hard to recall that she was unconscious after being shot by Qu Boyao's arrow, who else would have the opportunity and could take her away for treatment, and the furnishings in this house were not like ordinary petty officials' homes, could it be Qu Boyao? Then he shouted to Wei Yun weakly: "Wei Niangzi, why am I here?" ”

Wei Yun moved his eyes to her, smiled slightly, and walked in a graceful manner, and when he was about to reach her, another voice suddenly appeared: "You have lost too much blood, your body is weak, don't talk if you can, don't ask if you can!" ”

Wei Yun turned around and glared at the woman behind her, and scolded lightly: "Menghua, don't speak in such a tone!" ”

The woman behind her who was called Menghua by Wei Yun looked like she was in her twenties, about the same age as Wei Yun, and when her eyes swept to Zheng Yuan, the whites of her eyes flew and she turned her head to add incense.

Wei Yun smiled and sat on the edge of the couch, took Zheng Yuan's hand and said, "The lady will lie down and rest first, heal her injuries, and when you see our master, you will understand everything." ”

Your master, but Qu Zhengyuan hesitated again and again, but swallowed back the words that came to her mouth.

Wei Yun comforted her a few words, got up and cleaned up with the maidservants. Zheng Yuan also stopped talking, and watched Wei Yun and them busy blankly. After about half an hour, the group finished cleaning up, Wei Yun said to her: "Lady, rest well, I will let Chunxi serve you from now on, if you need anything, you can directly order Chunxi, I will come to see you in the evening and send you some liquid food." With that, the group exited the door one after another.

When he walked to the threshold, he was careless, Wei Yun stumbled under his feet and almost fell. The two maidservants hurriedly supported Wei Yun from the side: "Madam, Madame, slow down." ”

When Zheng Yuan heard this, her doubts and surprises were mixed, and when Wei Yun's front foot almost stepped out of the door, she suddenly shouted: "Wei Niangzi stays!" ”

Seeing her turn around, Zheng Yuan was full of astonishment and asked Wei Yun: "Are you, but Qu Boyao's wife?" ”

Wei Yun was stunned for a moment, and asked with a smile: "Why is the lady so excited?" ”

She acquiesced, and sure enough, it was still him, Zheng Yuan turned around and lowered her eyes: "Thank you Madame for taking care of you." ”

Menghua, who had already left the door, hurriedly pushed Wei Yun inside, and said to Zheng Yuan: "Xiangye is young and close to women, there are only me and my sister by my side, my sister is a wife, and I am a concubine." ”

"One wife and one concubine" Zheng Yuan let out a thin cold sneer from the end of her nose, and smiled quietly: "When did you get married, I don't know, one wife and one concubine, you will really enjoy the blessings of all people." ”

When everyone retreated, only Zheng Yuan and Chunxi were left in the house.

"Does the lady want to drink water?"

Zheng Yuan shook her head, and seeing that she was also fourteen or fifteen years old, she asked her, "Is your name Chunxi?" How old are you? ”

Chunxi nodded: "I'm fifteen." ”

"Oh," Zheng Yuan smiled, "It's as big as me." ”

"Is the lady fifteen too?" Chunxi's eyes were bright, and she took out a silk to wipe the sweat from the corners of her forehead: "The lady is a good life, when I wipe the hands of the lady, I see that the lady's palms are clean and smooth, and the knuckles are white and slender. ”

Zheng Yuan only pursed her lips and smiled, so that her lips lost their blood, and she chatted with Chunxi without saying a word. When she learned that Chunxi was also from an official eunuch family in the past, and her family was changed because she was young and was not an official slave, she was tortured, and it took several years to meet a good master, Zheng Yuan couldn't help but worry. Now that Yuanyuan doesn't know her whereabouts, if she is not an official slave, she will not have to worry about her life for the time being, but she will inevitably suffer. I just don't know what Wei Yun means when he says safe and sound.

The sky was getting dark, Wei Yun sent someone to bring dinner to Zheng Yuan, but he didn't show up, Zheng Yuan didn't think about tea and dinner, and asked his subordinates to spread the word that they wanted to see Qu Boyao with their own eyes.

The withered branches outside the window were swaying, and when the north wind was blowing, Qu Boyao came dressed in wind and snow. When the living man stood in front of her, he did not have the vigor of the day, his eyelids drooped a little heavily, and when he raised his eyes to look at her, he was also a little tired, he only looked at her without saying a word.

"Don't think I'll be grateful to you for saving me."

"Save you? How have I saved you? Qu Boyao's demeanor was as usual: "You obviously died under my arrow." ”

Zheng Yuan wanted to speak again, but heard him say again: "The person who has saved your life is not me, it is the King of Qin, have you forgotten that you met robbers on the way back from Linjiang Wangfu when you were nine years old?" Now that King Qin has ascended the throne, you hate him no less than me. ”

When she was eight years old, Zheng Yuan was not born, and she was still the most delicate little lady in Xiangguo's mansion. He asked her half-jokingly, "Little lady, have you ever wondered what kind of man you like?" He was nineteen years old.

She tilted her head and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "I often hear my sister talk about my eldest brother, and I think that my eldest brother should be very majestic when he is riding on a horse and hunting in his robe. Hmm~ He'd better be a brave and good general, he rode on a tall horse, galloped towards me, and when he passed me, he leaned down and stretched out his hand to pull me on."

She was still naïve, and she always told everything she thought without reservation, and he regretfully thought that if she had been born earlier, maybe he would have had a chance to appear in front of her as the man she liked. After all, he grew up in the military camp, at the age of five he could hold a bow, at the age of eight he could ride a horse, at the age of ten he could walk through a hundred steps, at the age of twelve he could hold a thousand bows, and at the age of fourteen, during a march, he was ambushed by the Uighurs, and his father was captured. Growing up in the barracks, he was incognito and pseudonymous Ye Yang in order not to let people know his real name Hao, and when he was seventeen years old, he entered the Prime Minister's Mansion and was incognito and pseudonymous Qu Boyao

When she was nine years old, she and her mother returned from her maternal grandfather's house, the palace of Linjiang Wang, and met robbers on the way, and the king of Qin rescued their mother and daughter and took the heads of all the robbers. When she came back, she met him under the porch, and she said to him sullenly: "Sir, I met a man in armor today, and he saved me and my mother, and my mother said let those people go, they don't want to kill them, they just want to grab some money and eat." He cut off the head of a man with a single sword, and also strung those bloody heads together, although the man was very brave, but it was so bloody, and he also mistakenly killed three innocent maids beside his mother, I, I don't want to be grateful to him. She blushed, bowed her head and said, "It's better to be a polite, benevolent and virtuous gentleman like Sir." With that, he blushed and quickly entered the house.

After listening to her story, he raised his hands and looked at it again, benevolence and virtue? He has killed many people with his practical hands, when he was a teenager, he opened his bow and pulled arrows, held knives, halberds, guns and spears, and now he pushes the boat down the river, secretly strategizes and manipulates, and he doesn't see blood in the open.

She must have been disappointed when she knew that the polite gentleman in her eyes had painstakingly devised many things that were contrary to her expectations.

Zheng Yuan secretly gritted her teeth, hated him and caused her to remind her of the past, and said: "When Xiangguo Mansion sheltered you in Weiwei, not only were you not grateful, but you acted step by step, and the wolf wolf of Qin who was ambitious was in adultery, helping him kill the monarch and forcing the prince to death, if there was no King Qin and you, Xiangguo Mansion would not have suffered today's catastrophe." ”

"You really look up to me," Qu Boyao said with a smile: "Without me, the Xiangguo Mansion that supports the crown prince will still be uprooted by King Qin." Prince? Because the crown prince is the prince of His Majesty, can he be the emperor justifiably? The prince is benevolent and cowardly, he is not ruthless enough, and he is unable to deal with the forces that are eyeing each other and consolidate the golden ou of the imperial court. King Qin can ascend the throne because he is ruthless, but King Qin is unkind," he approached step by step: "If there is a person now, he is more benevolent but more ruthless than King Qin, then King Qin's throne may not be able to sit for long" The words fell, he was already under her eyes, and suddenly reached out to hook her jaw.